"I knew from the beginning it would be a wonderful life experience to go through what this guy goes through. The script was unbelievable; when I read it, I thought, "I can see myself in it.""

"The fact that I finally, in the end, got to play him is a miracle for me."

"Johnny Whitworth — Vernon "Vern" Gant"

"Bradley Cooper — Edward "Eddie" Morra"

"Time somebody shook up the free world and got things done."

"How many of us ever know what it is to become the perfect versions of ourselves?"

"They've identified these receptors in the brain that activate specific circuits. And you know how they say that we can only access twenty percent of our brain? Well, what this does, it lets you access all of it."

"I don't have delusions of grandeur, I have an actual recipe for grandeur."

"What if a pill could make you rich and powerful?"

"All my fear, all my shyness, gone. But mere lounging wasn't enough. Only problem? If I wasn't moving forward, I felt like I was going to explode."

"Tomas Arana — Man in tan coat"

"I was blind, but now I see."

"It was all bubbling up in my frontal lobes, mixing itself together into a sparkling cocktail of useful information."

"I wasn't high, I wasn't wired; just clear. I knew what I needed to do and how to do it."

"In the end, how much worse could it get? [takes NZT-48 for the first time]"

"A tablet a day and what I could do with my day was limitless."

"Obviously, I miscalculated a few things. Why is it that the moment your life exceeds your wildest dreams, a knife appears at your back? Well, I'll tell you one thing: I will never let them touch me."

"For a guy with a four-digit I.Q., I must have missed something. And I hadn't missed much."

"I suddenly knew everything. About everything."

"My brain was just pouring this stuff out. Everything I had ever read, heard, seen was now organized and available."

"Eugenia Kuzmina - Hilda Meier"

"Alicia von Rittberg - Emma"

"Kevin Vance - SSG Peterson"

"Branko Tomović - German Corporal"

"Anamaria Marinca - Irma"

"Brad William Henke - SSG Davis"

"Jim Parrack - SSG Binkowski"

"Iain Garrett - SGT Foster"

"Michael Peña - Trini "Gordo" Garcia"

"Jon Bernthal - Grady "Coon-Ass" Travis"

"Jason Isaacs - CPT "Old Man" Waggoner"

"Logan Lerman – Norman "Machine" Ellison"

"War never ends quietly."

"Brad Pitt - Don "Wardaddy" Collier"

"Scott Eastwood - SGT Miles"

"Shia LaBeouf - Boyd "Bible" Swan"